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Kate’s Approach
Kate’s approach is reflective, compassionate, and emotionally focused. She offers clients a safe and non-judgemental space to explore anxieties, thoughts, and feelings about a particular issue.
Kate is a specialist relationship psychotherapist and uses a psychodynamic approach, which involves attending to the unconscious aspects as well as the conscious. This way of working helps you to bear difficult feelings, and have greater insight into how you see yourself and the other. In doing so, the aim of the work is to provide relief from those feelings and emotional suffering, at the same time as working towards understanding yourself and others for long term change.
Couple Psychotherapy
In couple therapy, the relationship between you and your partner, and the dynamic that you both create is the focus of the therapy. Kate helps couples break cycles that can feel stuck, and encourages curiosity to help improve both the communication and intimacy between you and your partner.
Couple therapy not only attends to the couple relationship but can also help each individual in the relationship gain an understanding of themselves and how they relate to others, and when this is heard and understood by their partner, this can bring more connectedness between the couple.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is about exploring your relationship with your self and others. Psychodynamic therapy can help you become aware of repeating patterns in your relationships with others and help you make sense of why you relate in the way that you do, and understand inner conflicts.
You might seek help for a specific issue, such as the loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship or confusion around gender and sexuality. Equally, you might not know why you feel dissatisfaction with life, work or relationships, or have conflictual feelings about staying in a relationship or your profession.
In-House Therapy
If you are an organisation looking for in-house therapeutic support, then I offer brief focused psychotherapy and reflective practice for employees. This could be on a monthly basis, or in a block of sessions either in-person or online. Kate is particularly interested in supporting Bristol based organisations.
Therapeutic support can be especially helpful if you have an employee who is experiencing a life event that is impacting on their work and their psychological health.
About Kate
Kate trained at Tavistock Relationships, the leading centre of excellence for relationship and couple psychotherapy. Kate is an Individual and Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapist registered with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). Kate has several years’ experience providing therapy to couples and individuals from young adults to older people in later life and providing in-house support to law firms.
Kate has a special interest in supporting clients through change, bereavement and grief, and she previously worked as a couples and individual therapist with The Harbour, a charity in Bristol that offers brief, focused therapy for people facing death, affected by a life-threatening illness and bereavement.
Kate has also undertaken some initial training in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Therapy (ISTDP) and is starting the Core Training in 2025.
Fees & Availability
Kate is based in Bristol and her consulting room is in Orchard Street BS1. She offers a quiet, confidential space.
Kate offers therapy in-person and online via Zoom. An initial individual consultation lasts up to 75 minutes and a couple consultation up to 90 minutes long.
Ongoing weekly sessions are 50-60 minutes long. Kate’s fees are:
Individual £60-£75 per session (initial consultation £75).
Couples £75-£85 per session (initial consultation £95)
Corporate and organisations: single-session and block sessions available. Please enquire directly.
Kate is undergoing a second clinical training and has one low fee place available (as part of her CORE ISTDP training).
Contact Kate
To find out about Kate’s availability, please complete the contact form and include briefly the type of help you’re looking for, and Kate will respond to you as soon as possible.
In-person sessions are held in Kate’s consulting room in Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH.